I'm sighted, and I have benefited from it occasionally, but a lot of the alt text I"ve seen feels like it's kinda useless without a visual frame of reference _anyways_?
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If I'm writing a technical post, anyone could come across it, even someone non-technical - does the same obligation exist to ensure that everyone who could ever come across the post will understand it?Or if I'm writing about an Americanism, should I make sure to explain what it is for non-Americans who see it?
This standard is fundamentally impossible to meet for many topics, then. A lot of posts I write are about extremely niche topics that the average person could not understand without the equivalent of a book that is hundreds of pages long!
Which is kinda the point: generally, those posts aren't really meant for a totally general audience, they're meant for people who are_already aware.If I make a public post with some software code, my audience does not include non-engineers!
My question wasn't "What do you do as a result of other people's actions?" My questions are on what we *should* be doing.
A link in alt-text isn't overly useful, as its shown in some kind of mouse-over popup where you can't select text.
I guess something like this should work: "the Drake meme, first picture showing him in a dismissive pose, the text next to it says 'waiting forever for template-heavy C++ code to compile', the second shows a approving pose with 'waiting forever for Rust code to compile' "=> it describes what's on the picture and mentions the memes name so one can look it up
